McGowan’s South Carolina Brigade

The Breakthrough Trail

Brigadier General Samuel McGowan, a 43-year-old lawyer and politician from Abbeville, South Carolina, commanded the troops responsible for maintaining these fortifications from October 1864 through March 1865. McGowan’s Brigade consisted of five South Carolina regiments numbering about 1,400 ...

Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument

(Bottom of Marker):

In memory of

Officers and soldiers who fell near this place

fighting with the 7th United States Cavalry

against the Sioux Indians

on the 25th and 26th of June,

A.D. 1876

(The rest of the marker includes names of the officers and soldiers who ...

P & H 2300 Production Shovel Bucket

The production shovel bucket here was once mounted on a P & H shovel similar to the one pictured here.

The bucket capacity is 18 cubic yards which is equivalent to nearly 400 bushel baskets of dirt or broken rock.

The Taylor Public Schools

From 1877 until 1880, several private schools served residents of the Taylor area. In 1880 a public institution, The Stock Company School, was built and maintained by a group of private citizens. A school for black children of the community ...

Slave Burial Ground in Old Round Rock Cemetery

Near the gravesite of outlaw Sam Bass, one-half acre of Old Round Rock Cemetery was set aside for slave burials. Enclosed by cedar posts and barbed wire, sites are marked head and foot with large limestone rocks. Some rocks are ...

The Beacon

(Aircraft Guiding Light)

In 1945, the army deeded the Walterboro Army Airfield, previously known as Anderson Airfield, jointly to the City of Walterboro and Colleton County, including all surplus equipment. The Beacon (Aircraft Guiding Light) was left as part of the ...

Shiloh Baptist Church

Founded Nov. 2, 1854, by 18 charter members. Services and revivals were often held under brush arbors at two early meeting sties (Located 3 mi. NE and 2 mi. S of here). Building retains its simple pioneer style even with ...

Second Brigade

Second Division - First Corps

Army of the Potomac

First Corps Second Division

Second Brigade

Brig. Gen. Henry Baxter

12th. Mass. 83d. 97th. New York

11th. 88th. 90th. Pennsylvania Infantry

July 1 Arrived about noon took position on right of Corps on Mummasburg Road with Second Brigade ...

Third Brigade, Cavalry Division

U.S.A.

Third Brigade, Cavalry Division.

Col. Richard H. Rush, 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry,

Commanding.

Organization.

4th and 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry.

(September 17, 1862.)

The Third Brigade supported Battery A, (Tidball's) 2nd U.S. Artillery in its advance, piece by piece, to the crest of the ridge in front, by ...

First Brigade, Cavalry Division

U.S.A.

First Brigade, Cavalry Division.

Major Charles J. Whiting, 2nd U.S. Cavalry,

Commanding.

Organization.

5th and 6th United States Cavalry.

(September 17, 1862.)

The Fifth United States Cavalry, Captain Joseph H. McArthur commanding, crossed the middle bridge over the Antietam shortly before noon and took position on ...